Tsutsuku (he/they)Jun 13, 2023

#redditmigration #reddit

One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private.

It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I'm seething.

Show threadyoasifJun 13, 2023
@Tsutsuku Which sub-reddit?
Show threadTsutsuku (he/they)
@yoasif
subreddit is u/tumblr and u/taytay_is_god is the moderator who was stripped.
Jun 13, 2023 at 4:14pmWeb
Show threadTsutsuku (he/they)Jun 13, 2023
@yoasif
It looks like a lot of the comments that taytay made explaining what was going on have been deleted but https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/12f8mwz/moderator_announcement_all_bot_posts_and_comments/ shows some of her activity as a mod, https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/147g2b8/i_dont_know_if_we_are_already_but_we_need_to_shut/ is where she confirmed that the subreddit was going to go private, and this is the poll showing the community decision
Moderator Announcement: all bot posts and comments will be removed and all bot accounts will be perma-banned.

Posted in r/tumblr by u/Taytay_Is_God • 3,768 points and 138 comments

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Show threadAnisseJun 13, 2023
@Tsutsuku
It looks like it's private again, did they change something?
Show threadTsutsuku (he/they)Jun 13, 2023
@Aissen
Yeah she said that it went back to private ~3hrs ago, but she's still de-modded.
Show threadLotusJun 14, 2023

@Tsutsuku @yoasif

Archived links for those who want to read those now that the subreddit is private: http://web.archive.org/web/20230408023648/https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/12f8mwz/moderator_announcement_all_bot_posts_and_comments/ http://web.archive.org/web/20230612054047/https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/147g2b8/i_dont_know_if_we_are_already_but_we_need_to_shut/

Moderator Announcement: all bot posts and comments will be removed and all bot accounts will be perma-banned.

Posted in r/tumblr by u/Taytay_Is_God • 1 point and 1 comment

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Show threadjimmyhiggs337Jun 15, 2023
@Tsutsuku @yoasif I believe the story there is that there was a fairly inactive top mod that was a reddit admin, and they went scorched earth with the rest of the mod team and re-opened the sub.
Show threadTsutsuku (he/they)Jun 15, 2023
@jimmyhiggs337 @yoasif
Nope, Taytay was incredibly active on there and got de-modded anyways. So at least in this instance, activity was not the reason.
Show threadjimmyhiggs337Jun 15, 2023
@Tsutsuku @yoasif you got what I said backwards
Show threadjimmyhiggs337Jun 15, 2023
@Tsutsuku @yoasif inactive mod was top mod, the top mod after a long time if being inactive, kicked them out even though they were active